The journey of How To Save A Marriage - Our New Comedy Pilot!

December, 2019 I finished the final touches on How To Save A Marriage, a comedy web series that I have been working on for just under a year. The idea was pretty simple: 7 page script, two actors, one location. It was the culmination of writing for about two years and finally landing on what I thought would be “good practice”.

I hadn’t made anything outside of music videos since my musical, A Reason To Sing, which was completed in 2012 and rejected from every festival we submitted to in 2013. In hindsight, it makes sense. It is 37 minutes long, has low production value, and nobody famous is involved. I wouldn’t have selected it for my festival either! You could program 4-6 other shorts in that amount of screen time!

Because of the rejection of A Reason To Sing I was shielded at first, calling How To Save A Marriage “practice”. By doing that I was cheating myself into not fully committing and not doing my film justice. Only once I began to fully commit myself did I start learning the lessons I needed to.

I finished the project feeling like I had run a marathon. There was always progress but I felt like I had inched along to the finish line, completing the project 6 months after I wanted to. But we must have done something right because unlike A Reason To Sing we are getting accepted! We submitted to 36 festivals, so far have been accepted to 3, and are waiting to hear from 29. I’m just happy to be selected and I am already editing a new project, excited to torture myself again through the painful process of learning from mistakes.

Here’s what I learned: Go into everything you do ready to take risks, to learn from mistakes, and know that if failure seems likely you’re on the right track.

How To Save A Marriage is premiering Friday, February 21st at LA Under The Stars in Hollywood.